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ditto

[dit-oh] / ˈdɪt oʊ /
NOUN
copy, reproduction
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STRONG


NOUN
(said to express agreement with what was just said)
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For the first half of the 20th century, this need was addressed—sort of—via mimeographs and ditto machines.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 15, 2025

“Mum didn’t teach them because she was out at work and Dad ditto, if he ever could cook!”

From Salon Dec. 9, 2024

Those who appreciate the minty mushy peas will wish for more than the small dollop provided; ditto the housemade tartar sauce.

From Seattle Times Nov. 8, 2023

A senior DUP source said if you read Sir Jeffrey's speech in tandem with that of his very much ditto deputy Gavin Robinson they "neither spoke of a done deal nor scoffed at the potential".

From BBC Oct. 17, 2023

The heat trapped inside the auditorium during the whole stupid summer turned up a degree or two with each new ditto.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

Enter MARIA, disguised in a brown bowler hat and a very tight suit of tweed "dittoes," in which she looks very like the "Male Impersonator" at a Music-hall.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 by Various

It was a dingy apartment, with a single large horse-hair chair and half a dozen small wooden dittoes, placed with mathematical precision along the walls.

From The Firm of Girdlestone by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

And Matilda had come out in the home dress she had worn while she and Maria had been washing up the dinner dittoes.

From What She Could by Susan Warner

But what the mischief do you mean—you, with your pretence to culture—by hanging your dwelling with all those framed and glazed photograph and autograph dittoes?

From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Secretaries, servants, wood, charities, which are demanded as rights, and the million dittoes, present such a prospect as is enough to disgust anyone.

From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by William Henry Seward

She had such a clear vision, he said: That the movie should center on a mall, that there should be surreal shots, like the kids smelling their dittos.

From New York Times Dec. 5, 2018

Mrs. Baker came back into the room with a pile of blue dittos.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

Catch the Spirit!—and they handed out a stack of dittos, and for the next thirty minutes, Principal Peattie stood on the stage and read them to us.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt

His hands were always blue from the ink, mostly because he hauled the dittos out from the machine while they were still wet from the alcohol—the smell of which gave the room a tang.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt

Suits of dittos clothe this whopper; Patent leather boots be got; You might lead him—"smash, my topper!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 by Various

This understanding is dittoed for the batter who’s on a hitting streak, the poker player who’s drawing strong hands and the stock picker who has a run of soaring successes.

From Scientific American Sep. 27, 2023

This sentiment was dittoed in a post from somebody named Louise.

From Salon Oct. 5, 2010

He dittoed these off like a major publisher.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt




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